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Harbinger brings its medium-duty EVs to the Canadian market

Harbinger, a manufacturer of medium-duty electric and hybrid vehicles, has made its products available for purchase across all provinces and territories in Canada. The company is now accepting orders through its Canadian dealer Safetek Specialty Vehicles, and plans to expand its Canadian dealer network. Harbinger’s proprietary EV chassis platform is designed for walk-in vans, box… Read more »

Nano One increases battery cathode material throughput capacity by 50% with new agitator

Canadian battery materials manufacturer Nano One Materials has installed and commissioned an agitator in the commercial-sized, 20,000-liter One-Pot reactor at its production facility in Candiac, Québec. The new equipment installation has been engineered to enhance mixing dynamics, thermal transfer and reaction time and is estimated to increase throughput capacity at the facility by approximately 50%…. Read more »

Auction announced for Lion Electric’s Mirabel EV battery facility with 1.7 GWh production line

Workingman Capital, in partnership with Hilco Commercial Industrial, has announced the auction of Lion Electric’s EV battery manufacturing facility in Mirabel, Quebec. The facility features a high-output battery production line with an annual capacity of 1.7 GWh, scalable to 5.0 GWh. Online Timed Auction: Monday, July 8, 2025 – 11:00 AM ETInspection: Sunday, July 7,… Read more »

Vancouver Island city buys a RIZON Class 4 electric truck

The City of Colwood on Vancouver Island has deployed a RIZON e16M electric truck. The Class 4 medium-duty truck—upfitted with a dump body—will be integrated into Colwood’s municipal public works services. The delivery caps a busy month for RIZON, which also delivered trucks in Vancouver and Quebec. RIZON is Daimler Truck’s ninth and newest brand…. Read more »

Indium Corporation and Rio Tinto extract gallium for EVs at Canada refinery

Electronic materials producer Indium Corporation and mining giant Rio Tinto have successfully extracted gallium from feed sourced at Rio Tinto’s Vaudreuil alumina refinery in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. The companies are working to provide a strategic North American supply of the metal, which is used in EVs, semiconductors, integrated circuits, high-performance radar, smartphones, and laptops and… Read more »

How FLO’s vertical integration boosts EV charging reliability: build, own, operate, maintain

Q&A with Yann Benoit, FLO’s Senior Director for Network Operations. Reliability problems plague the EV charging industry. The state of public charging is so bad that many now consider it one of the biggest impediments to large-scale EV adoption. Physical damage to the charging stations is seldom the problem, so why do these darn things… Read more »

Northern Graphite starts sampling LDI graphite for battery anode materials

Canadian producer Northern Graphite is supplying samples of three standard battery anode material (BAM) products, as well as its Porocarb material, to manufacturers of lithium-ion and solid-state batteries. Northern’s demonstrator grades, produced using graphite from the company’s Lac des Iles (LDI) mine in Quebec acquired in 2022, are engineered to drive battery performance and meet… Read more »

Daimler Truck’s RIZON brand begins Canadian deliveries of electric trucks

RIZON, Daimler Truck’s North American electric truck brand, which launched in Canada in 2024, recently made its first delivery in that country to Villamar Construction in Victoria, British Columbia. The dump body truck is to be used in the company’s various building projects. RIZON will deliver 18 additional units in the near future to customers… Read more »

Volkswagen invests C$69 million in Patriot Battery Metals for PowerCo supply

German automaker Volkswagen is investing C$69 million ($48 million) to acquire a 9.9% stake in lithium exploration company Patriot Battery Metals and secure an offtake commitment for its battery manufacturer PowerCo to supply 100,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate per year over a 10-year term and a potential 5-year extension period. Patriot will use the proceeds from… Read more »